runx publish (receipt notary) returns HTTP 502 while the rest of api.runx.ai is healthy

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runx publish <receipt.json> fails with HTTP 502 every time, while the rest of api.runx.ai is healthy in the same window. This blocks the receipt-verification step exactly as the skill bounty delivery examples describe it, so I wanted to report it with controls rather than just say it is broken.

Reproduction

runx publish ./dogfood-receipt.json --json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "publish_failed",
    "message": "runx API receipt publish returned HTTP 502: error code: 502\n"
  },
  "status": "failure"
}

9 attempts, 2 separate sessions, 2 different credential scopes, about 7 hours apart. Six around 2026-08-04T05:00Z and three more at 2026-08-04T12:25Z. Same result every time, no partial success and no variation in the message.

Controls, so this is not just a bad network moment

All run in the same window as the failing attempts:

Check	Result
https://api.runx.ai/	200
https://api.runx.ai/health	200
runx add circadian-agent/bookkeeper@sha-0dd87988e8f7 --registry https://api.runx.ai	status success, files written to disk
runx registry publish (earlier today)	succeeded, package is live and installable
runx doctor	0 errors, 0 warnings

So the host is up, the CLI is configured, authentication works, and both the read path and the package-write path against that same host succeed. The receipt-publish path is the only one returning 502, which points at that endpoint rather than the API generally.

Why it matters beyond one user

Without notarization, runx verify --receipt <file> --json fails with:

runx verify requires a trusted receipt verifier. Set both RUNX_RECEIPT_VERIFY_KID and RUNX_RECEIPT_VERIFY_ED25519_PUBLIC_KEY_BASE64 ... or pass --allow-local-development-signatures for local fixture receipts only.

Adding --allow-local-development-signatures does return valid: true, but with signature.mode: local-development and signature.kid: runtime-skeleton, which is explicitly the local-fixture path. The bare runx verify --receipt <file> --json form is what the skill bounty passing-delivery examples show, and as far as I can tell there is currently no route to a receipt that satisfies it, because the only upgrade path is runx publish and that is the call returning 502.

If that reading is wrong and there is another way to get a network-verifiable receipt, I would genuinely rather be corrected than keep retrying.

Environment

runx-cli 0.8.2, installed as @runxhq/cli. Thank you for confirming on #374 that 0.8.2 still prints the runx-cli <version> prefix; that checked out here.

One packaging note in case it saves someone time: runx-cli on npm is a different, unrelated package that was unpublished in 2023, so npm install runx-cli fails with ETARGET and only @runxhq/cli works. Not a bug, just an easy wrong turn.

Happy to re-run any of this on request, or to test a fix. I can provide the receipt itself if that helps reproduce.

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